A Charity Leader Works to Beautify an Inner City

A DAY IN THE LIFE

By Kimberlee Roth

Detroit

Rebecca Salminen Witt, president of the Greening of Detroit, is starting her day a couple of hours earlier than expected. At 7 a.m. on a Friday in June, she arrives at a vacant lot in downtown Detroit to supervise its refurbishing, even though volunteers aren't slated to arrive until 9. Yesterday, a tire blew out on

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